Prisons: medical treatment facilities.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to construct and establish new buildings at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department to provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing for 6,000 inmates. Existing law additionally authorizes the department to design, construct, and establish new buildings at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department to provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing for 2,000 inmates. This bill would require the department to engage in certain activities prior to designing, constructing, or establishing one of these new medical, dental, or mental health treatment facilities, including, but not limited to, identifying and analyzing all possible social and economic impacts that may result from the construction and operation of the facility and fully mitigating those impacts to the extent possible, preparation of a social and economic impact report to address the possible impacts resulting from the construction and operation of the facility, and meeting and conferring in good faith with county and city representatives to reach mutually satisfactory resolution of all disputes relating to the social and economic impacts reasonably arising from or related to the facility and the sufficiency of proposed mitigation measures.